(: Look How Well the Cows Ate the Grass :)

If you can, try to find the line between pastures. The fence is visible in the first picture, and you can see change along that line. The left side has more grass right? Cattle tend to prefer new growth material in grass, so they will go back and eat the newest stuff if they can. A principle called Mob Grazing puts more cattle in a smaller area for a short amount of time in the hope of producing the effect you see here. Put this in combination with Rotational Grazing, and you get a wonderful effect on the land. The cattle graze as much as you allow in a short period of time. They can’t patch graze new growth down as much. Then you move them to a new small space. They get the new growth in each move, the grass gets rest, and it get the proper grazing level. The only negative is the number of fences and amount of work required by the farmer. But isn’t that why we’re here…to be good stewards?